“Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity life follows my pen. The days and hours of it are flying over our heads like clouds of windy day never to return—more everything presses on—” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“Probably so. I’m a sinner with more faults than you imagine, Patsy. But you’re the friend to which my soul is unalterably attached, so… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“The happiness of your life depends now on pleasing a single person. To this, I know all other objects must be secondary, even your… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“There are only three kinds of ink that rulers use to write their stories. Sweat, blood, or tears. So choose your ink carefully, because… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t open that well inside me, or I’d never get it closed again.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“People forgot the fragility of our enterprise as a new nation, and sometimes forgot, too, how much we owed France for it.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“But women have to give hard thought to the men we'll wind up with. Make a mistake and get a drunk, a spendthrift, a… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“Tell your papa I’ll call upon him soon. Mr. Jefferson is still very much needed here in Paris, where his revolution remains undone. In… — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“Kings and queens cry with family. Hide your grief from subjects and strangers.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“Because partisanship has made anything fair, which honor and propriety might once have kept quiet.” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
“And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...” — Stephanie Dray Copy Share Image
